Is openmailbox.org Safe?

TL;DR : Openmailbox now forces people who wish to download their email, or use third party email clients (such as Thunderbird) to pay $4.99 per month. For a service that used to be free. I no longer trust this organization. I have used ***** as my main email account for years. It worked with Thunderbird, and I had no problems with it. I used a free account. That has recently changed. Previously, one could set up Thunderbird (Mozilla's email client) to work with openmailbox.org's POP3 server. For anyone who is is not aware, POP3 is the protocol used to download the emails to your machine. Recently, Openmailbox removed the ability for free accounts to download their emails. Free accounts are now permitted only to use webmail. If you desire the ability to download your emails, or even to use Thunderbird or another third party email client, you are forced to spend $4.99 per month. For a service that was once free.

It was good, but now it is horrible, they claim to have good support, and fast response , now there is not even a contact option, yes there is a "contact" button, but it does not link to anything "not found", ... 3 days ago they shut down, with out any prior notice to users, and for 3 days no e-mail service available, Even now , they are back online, but no e-mails get received, and no support or contact available,.. I certainly will not get mixed up with this site and trust it for my e-mail any more. They are really pushing the "paid" service now, but I would not be fooled and pay anything to them now. Maybe if they get some support and contact options going, and respond to questions , etc,..but the don't , How can anyone trust them now ? This is what I get when I try to contact them: https://www.openmailbox.org/contact ==================== Not Found The requested URL /contact was not found on this server. I can not trust a site that does not offer support , nor a means of contact. They also are giving 30 days, if one does not pay, the service will be downgraded,...

as my username suggests, i have been using an @openmailbox.org account on a daily basis for the past three years. it was initially relatively basic e-mail service - no two factor authentication, roundcube webmail, 1GB of e-mail storage. a file storage service was eventually introduced, and aliases were more recently introduced. but the plain e-mail service was generally of reasonable reliability. i would donate once a year, and the amount i would donate was comparable to other e-mail providers, considering the simplicity of the service. however, for the past few days, the website, which recently i have been using daily to access e-mails, went completely down. it showed only a couple sentences, and the sentences suggested that the update was taking longer than the staff/guy had expected. it is now running again, but the website is occasionally crashing. none of my e-mails seem to have been lost, when i was able to login. but things have changed drastically, and i expect many users will find the changes very questionable. now, suddenly, if you want IMAP/SMTP/POP access, you have to pay 5 euros per month. that was previously free, since the beginning. there are also some new extras, which were previously unavailable, which are included in those five euros - an untested and totally new two-factor-authentication implementation being one of them. unfortunately, the website is down again, probably due to it suddenly being overloaded by users, as the only thing that is now free is the webmail, so i can't tell you what else the 5 euros includes. perhaps they/he (the WHOIS records shows someone named pierre) should've made the IMAP free, instead. the bigger problem than these changes is that there was no announcement beforehand about *any* of these plans, or even simply the approximately 3 days of maintenance. on twitter, many months ago, there was hint of a new UI you could test at beta.openmalibox.org, but there was never even a mention of any paid plan beind introduced, especially *overnight* ! i cannot believe, as someone who used it so frequently, that i was never notified whatsoever about it - that's really surprising to me. i have contacted the staff (or just the guy) behind openmailbox.org in the past through the contact form, a small number of times over the years, but never received a reply. someone on twitter wrote 'sadly, a lack of communication seems to be another feature of openmailbox' and unfortunately, and very ironically, this seems to be true. i understand the inventor/maintainer of openmailbox.org needs money to maintain it, and there were frequently vague visuals about funding on the home page. however, i think they should've been more open about future plans, and involved and informed the users more, and their ideas/opinions, instead of just changing things overnight. maybe some new users will come along and adopt the new service. the maintainer is certainly experienced with e-mails by now, though all the new stuff is quite untested, and perhaps experimental, at this stage. but i think many users will leave as a result of this. perhaps a few will stay, and maybe the inventor/maintainer of openmailbox.org will start to make a profit. like when the british newspaper 'the times' went behind a paywall - it suddenly had far fewer users, but started to get overall more profit. but i think this has been a careless way to transition things, and perhaps shows that this may not be a service you can rely on to be the same tomorrow. ONE-DAY-LATER UPDATE: the website is now back up. but my aliases, some of my contacts, one *thankfully unimportant* folder in my archives, and the option to forward e-mails to a different address, are all gone... the webmail is also throwing errors, so you can't send e-mail.... and the contact form doesn't work, which might not be a mistake given what else is going on... luckily there is one button in the UI, so you can download every e-mail one by one, and luckily i didn't have many archived e-mails... the website is also not mobile-ready whatsoever: ***** so overall openmailbox has turned into a disaster, by an helpful man, who then turned crafty....

I visit this site too for customer support and i saw relaible support from this site, The support is excellent (although I doubt one will really need support), the mail service is dead easy to use, has integrated PGP encryption for mail, you can set up your own cloud, which is also open source software. Thanks me for best support team...

Curieux personnage que ce Pierre Barre en WHOIS caché, Site en TOTALE ILLEGALITE avec les Législations Françaises puisque AUCUNE Mention légale NI Registre du Commerce NI Nom d'entreprise ou Société ? Bref, un PARTICULIER officiant sur la voie publqiue avec des ressources déguisées ! A FUIR immédiatement... Curious character that this Pierre Barre in hidden WHOIS, Site in TOTAL ILLEGALITY with the French Legislations because NO Legal notice EITHER Commercial register OR Name of company or Company/Society ? In brief, a PARTICULAR officiating priest on the way publqiue with disguised resources ! To RUN AWAY immediately... Neugierige Person, daß dieser Pierre Barre im versteckten WHOIS, der Website(Gegend) in der TOTALEN UNGESETZLICHKEIT mit den französischen Gesetzgebungen, weil KEINE gesetzliche Erwähnung SOWOHL Handelsregister ALS AUCH Firmenname oder Gesellschaft ? Kurz publqiue ein EIGENTÜMLICHER(BESONDERER) Zelebrant auf dem Weg mit umgekleideten Mitteln ! Sofort zu FLIEHEN... Любопытный характер что этот Пирр Барре в скрытом WHOIS, Участок в целом НЕЗАКОННОСТЬ с французскими законодательствами поскольку НИКАКОЕ юридическое уведомление ИЛИ Коммерческий регистр ИЛИ Название компании или Компании (Общество) ? Короче говоря, СПЕЦИФИЧЕСКИЙ исполняющий обязанности священник на общественных дорогах (публично) с замаскированными ресурсами ! Не УБЕГАТЬ немедленно....

I have been invited by a friend to use this service as an alternative to Gmail and now it's my primary email account. I am very happy with this website and it's very reliable. I appreciated the commitment in the safeguard of privacy and the usage of free software.

Their technical support is very fast (when using their contact form). They offer email encryption (integrated when using webmail), POP3, IMAP and XMPP protocols, everything you expect from an email provider and more! I'm really happy with the service.

I started using this superb all round service a few months ago, after I decided to get away from Google and the like. The support is excellent (although I doubt one will really need support), the mail service is dead easy to use, has integrated PGP encryption for mail, you can set up your own cloud, which is also open source software. To sum it up, if you want a privacy/security oriented E-Mail provider, this is it. This is how it's supposed to be done.